Harpers Fery Cholera

HARPER’S FERRY, Aug. 9. — The sun is very oppressive. Six cases of cholera were reported in town to-day, and three at Bolivar Mill, but no deaths have occurred. Business has been suspended, and more than one-half of the inhabitants left the town.

The following is from the correspondence of the Baltimore Sun of yesterday.

HARPER’S FERRY, Aug. 8, 1850.
Messrs. Editors– The cholera is still in our midst, and though now seemingly abating, within 24 hours seven deaths have occurred. Among others prominent in our community, we painfully record the death of Rev. Joseph G. Have, M. D.
He literally fell as a martyr to his profession, as a practising physician, and in the triumphs of christianity. His remains will to-day be taken, by the Baltimore train, to his farm in Frederick county, to be interred in his family burying ground.

HARPER’S FERRY, Aug. 8, 1850.
Messrs. Editors– The excitement here is intense. There were about 15 hands at work in the Armory yesterday– so one of them told me– and to-day there are very few at work. People are running for doctors, ice, and every thing else which they think will be likely to do their sick and dying good, or to save them from death.

Mr. Charles A. Mettee, of Baltimore, was attacked, after supper on Tuesday evening, and by eight o’clock next morning (Wednesday) he was a corpse. Some says that four and others that six died yesterday– but four certain– and last night a lady died and was taken off this morning in the cars for Frederick. Mr. Mettee was sent to Baltimore yesterday.

Mr. Carroll, proprietor of the United States Hotel, at the Bridge, (where I am stopping,) went to bed last night, was taken at three o’clock, and at five this morning he was dead.

New cases are reported here and there all about town, but I have no certain information of how many or whom. They are now cleaning and liming all the puddles, gullies, sinks &c. and the utmost excitement prevails.

When the cars from different quarters arrive, the spe spectacle is both amusing and sad. Some go without their dinners sooner than land on this infected spot– some will not even look out of the cars for fear of snuffing in some of the cholera fever, and those who change from the through trains to the Winchester cars (in some cases) do so with the utmost vigilance, running, as though some terrible fiend was after them.

The weather here is fine and not so excessively hot, though warm enough. Mr. Carroll will be buried this evening at 6 o’clock.

I wanted to get a horse this morning to ride to Shepherdstown, but I could not get one, not even for the liberal price of $5. Every horse, cart, and carriage, is engaged to carry away families and sick folks.

I shall leave here to-morrow, and I think and hope I may escape. I think I will get home safe.

Yours, &c. BALTIMOREAN.